Jovian
Jovian was given to 26 boys in 2025, #4,084 among boys’ names; 564 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jovian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jovian mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jovian is “a male given name from Latin”
From the emperor’s name, Latin Ioviānus.
/ˈd͡ʒoʊ.vi.ən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jovian?
#4,084 among boys’ names, 2025
Jovian fell from #3,631 in 2015 to #4,084 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 15.7 to 15.2 per million.
32 babies in 2018, the peak
Jovian peaked in 2018, when 32 boys were given it, #3,472 among boys’ names. The 26 births of 2025 are 81% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #4,084 | 15.2 |
| 2024 | 28 | #3,927 | 16.3 |
| 2023 | 21 | #4,799 | 12.3 |
| 2022 | 29 | #3,816 | 16.6 |
| 2021 | 23 | #4,430 | 13.1 |
| 2020 | 20 | #4,778 | 11.6 |
| 2019 | 26 | #4,053 | 14.5 |
| 2018 | 32 | #3,472 | 17.6 |
| 2017 | 25 | #4,167 | 13.5 |
| 2016 | 31 | #3,564 | 16.3 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #3,631 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 26 | #3,955 | 13.5 |
| 2013 | 17 | #5,281 | 9.0 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,840 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,788 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 7 | #10,185 | 3.6 |
| 2009 | 15 | #5,944 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 14 | #6,245 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 16 | #5,551 | 7.7 |
| 2006 | 14 | #5,935 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,683 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 13 | #5,966 | 6.5 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,553 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,691 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,640 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,797 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,551 | 4.7 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,677 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,663 | 4.2 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,334 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,187 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,082 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,729 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,196 | 3.9 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,702 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,722 | 6.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jovian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jovian has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 36 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jovian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jovian, and how old are they?
An estimated 556 Americans named Jovian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 488 people named Jovian (74 women and girls, 414 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 417 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 15,556 babies since 1880, Jovian is the third most given (3.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 150 babies (17%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jovian
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jovian and names like it
- Compare Jovian and JovanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJovian peaked in 2018.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jovian since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Jovian: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Jovian.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jovian alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.